Lafayette S. Foster

Lafayette Sabine Foster (22 November 1806-19 September 1880) was a US Senator from Connecticut (R) from 4 March 1855 to 4 March 1867 (succeeding Francis Gillette and preceding Orris S. Ferry).

Biography
Lafayette Sabine Foster was born in Franklin, Connecticut in 1806, and he became a schoolteacher in Rhode Island before becoming a lawyer in Maryland in 1830. He later edited the Republican Whig newspaper in his home state, and he served in the state legislature before serving in the US Senate as a Republican from 1855 to 1867. He was defeated for re-election in 1866, and he returned to the state legislature and judiciary. He died in 1880.